Quotes About Adaptation

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.

I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.

Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on Art.

Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.

When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.

I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not working as well.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.